Synopsis
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
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Cast
- Alec BaldwinCaesar
- Mena SuvariEllen
- Freddie Prinze Jr.Michael Turner
- Jerry FerraraBobby Canzoneri
- Scott CaanCarmine Mancuso
- Monica KeenaAmy
- John CenatiempoBouncer #1
- Brian O'NeillPriest
- Ursula AbbottAngela
- Ty Thomas ReedYoung Carmine
Recommendations
- 88
New York Daily News
Michael Corrente's Brooklyn Rules takes him to the mean streets of Gotti country, circa 1985, and it's another gem. - 63
TV Guide Magazine
Baldwin dominates the screen with his slick, beefy swagger, and if Prinze is less than convincing as a kid from Brooklyn, Caan and Ferrara nail Carmine and Bobby with such assured economy that it hardly matters they're one-note roles. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Baldwin is so good in the coming-of-age gangster drama Brooklyn Rules that it's like watching a voodoo priest. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Not as bad as Bobby's mother's lasagna, neither is Brooklyn Rules anywhere near the best you've ever had, though at times, it may remind you of it. - 50
The New York Times
However authentic and heartfelt this film's depiction of life on the meaner streets of the Northeast corridor may be, it doesn't begin to match "The Sopranos'" epic vision of violence, class struggle and upward mobility in a barbarous culture. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
The writing in Brooklyn seems even more generic. An excessive use of voice-over narration is a sure sign of a failure of dramatization. - 50
Variety
A sometimes funny, occasionally maudlin coming-of-age dramedy that wants to be "Goodfellas" but might have been called "Mild in the Streets." - 38
New York Post
The kind of movie that cries out for the fast-forward button.
